Meg co-founded CMAND after leading comms at Plaid. Before that, she was Director of Marketing and Communications at AltX, which was acquired by Addepar. Meg previously led comms and government affairs at some of the largest and most influential financial institutions in the world, including UBS, BNP Paribas, and JP Morgan Chase. Her experience spans the US, Canada, UK, and Latin America. She rowed crew at Penn. 

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Chelsea co-founded CMAND after leading marketing at Plaid, which she joined after the Series A. She was also the first marketing hire at a security startup that was acquired by Barracuda. In prior lives, she worked at Vogue, where she wrote and edited pieces on art, food, and politics and fetched a lot of coffee. She started her career as an investment banking analyst at Wells Fargo. Chelsea graduated from Duke, where she met her husband and served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper. 

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Ali’s career started in the newsroom at PBS NewsHour assisting the Foreign Affairs team, followed by the Fox News Channel’s Washington, D.C. bureau. She later joined DCI Group, a public affairs firm in Washington. She is passionate about guiding clients through tricky media landscapes. Ali holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Journalism from the George Washington University. She lives in Denver, where you can find her hiking in the summer and snowboarding in the winter.

Before joining CMAND, Caty was the Director of Communications at Front, a Sequoia-backed software startup. Previously, she was a VP of media strategy at Inkhouse, where she supported fast-growing companies in SaaS, cybersecurity, consumer tech, venture capital and CSR. Before that, Caty was the first PR and marketing hire for an angel-backed healthcare startup. She began her career with Edelman in Hong Kong, working with a broad range of clients including Hewlett-Packard, Symantec and Microsoft.

Dominique previously led talent acquisition initiatives and teams at Meta, AIG, and Goldman Sachs. Having spent her career helping high-performing organizations build and grow great teams, Dominique now helps organizations bridge their internal and external communications goals. She graduated from Howard with a degree in English Language and Literature.

Helena has over 15 years’ experience in technology, healthcare and NGOs. Before joining CMAND, Helena was Head of Communications at Spotcap, a small business lender. She previously supported organisations such as HPE, Accenture, Vodafone, Huawei and Intel from the New York and London offices of Burson Cohn & Wolfe. Helena has a B.A. in Government from Harvard and lives with her family in The Bahamas. She loves sport, particularly tennis, and when she has time, enjoys reading a good book.

Hikari brings over a decade of expertise in graphic and web design to CMAND. Hikari has been recognized as an Adobe Design Achievement Award semi-finalist and certified Shopify Expert. She lives in Nova Scotia.

Jill spent more than a decade producing and reporting on business and policy for Yahoo Finance, CBSN, Reuters, and CNBC. She has produced dozens of live field shoots on the sidelines of the G8, World Economic Forum, UN General Assembly, and IMF Annual Meetings. She was also previously the senior producer for public programs at the US Chamber of Commerce. Jill began her career in CNN's Washington bureau supporting The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and writing for the politics desk. 

Before joining CMAND, Katie was deputy national communications director for Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign. More recently, she has supported major brands including Levi’s, Google Cloud, and Coinbase, as well as start-ups like Maven Clinic and Drivewealth. Katie earned a bachelor of science in physics and political science with an honors concentration in American Catholic studies from Fordham University. Once upon a time, she was on a Netflix game show.

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Katy joined CMAND after running her own solo consulting practice, where she worked with early stage companies launching their PR and marketing programs for the first time. Prior to that, she spent several years across agencies spearheading comms programs for startups coming out of stealth all the way up to major publicly traded companies, like Google, Amazon and Salesforce. While she’s spent the bulk of her time in tech, she started her career in the hyper frenzied world of Washington, DC running issue advocacy campaigns for various nonprofit organizations.

Riley joined CMAND after working with the likes of Google Cloud, Menlo Ventures, TurboTax, and Coinbase. She was twice responsible for spearheading Google Cloud’s annual flagship conference that included managing the company’s overall news strategy and coordination of 100+ global media onsite. While much of her career has been in enterprise tech, Riley is especially passionate about advising startup founders on their media and content strategies. Riley received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon in Journalism and lives in San Francisco.

Sandra was previously head of corporate, policy, and safety communications at Reddit and Global Head of Security and Risk Communications at Visa. Earlier, she worked on campaigns doing opposition research. She lives in San Francisco with her family. 

Sarah has spent a decade bringing brands to life on social media. She joined CMAND after leading social media for Kindred Bravely, and her experience spans both B2B and B2C. Her strategic approach ensures brands resonate powerfully across digital channels.  

Sasha joined CMAND as a communications strategist with a knack for storytelling. Her work in the operations and fraud departments of Synchrony and Ally Bank gives her an analytical POV on the intersection of business and technology. Most recently, she was a Global Media Fellow at Syracuse University’s Blackstone LaunchPad, where she mentored entrepreneurs and published features. She graduated from Syracuse with a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. with distinction in Writing and Rhetoric.